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AHA 


PUKUOKA, 


This  land  of  84,000  sq 
and  16,500,000  people 
was  taken  over  by  Jap: 


iAKt* 


From  time  centuries 
old  Korea  has  been  a 
buffer  between  China 
and  Japan.  Her  people  have 
suffered  much.  They  have 
been  conquered  time  and 
ag^ain,  and  in  the  process 
they  have  acquired  traits 
peculiar  to  their  overlords. 

The  customs,  supersti- 
tions and  religions  of  both 
China  and  Japan  are  power- 
fully impressed  upon  these 
in-between  Koreans. 


of  Korea 

. ^ -r*-  ..  , .. 


AT  LAST,  however, 
the  race  is  burst- 
^ ^ ing  its  age-old,  iron- 

bound  stagnation.  The 
spirit  of  progress  has  been 
breathed  into  the  race,  and 
the  Koreans,  backed  up  with 
all  the  vigor  and  enthusiasm 
of  the  Japanese,  are  writ- 
ing history  carrying  in  it 
a distinctly  Christian 
trend. 


The  01d\\hys  were 

The  KOREAN  has  outgrown  his  stodgy  state  of  mind,  the  what-was-good- 
enough-for-father-is-good-enough-for-me  attitude.  When  Japan  blew  the 
reveille  that  echoed  among  Korea’s  hills,  she  put  an  end  to  the  self- 
satisfied  sleep  that  Korea  had  been  basking  in  for  ages. 


Time  meant  nothing  to  the  top-knotted  men  of  the  peninsula.  Energy  was 

never  wasted;  it  was 
not  even  spent.  Agri- 
cultural enterprise  was 
unknown.  Chemistry 
of  soils  and  rotation  of 
crops  were  as  Greek  to 
the  white-robed  farmers 
who  considered  it  not 
worth  while  to  fertilize 
their  fields.  The  crops 
of  Korea  were  regu- 
lated more  by  the  bounty 
of  nature  than  by  the 
ingenuity  or  diligence 
of  the  farmer. 


ood  enough -until 


WHY?  Many  reasons. 

The  hillsides  couldn’t 
be  leveled  because  the 
slopes  were  bumpy  with  burial 
mounds.  And  so  accustomed 
was  the  Korean  to  extortion 
for  prosperity,  that  even  under 
the  Japanese  regime,  which  en- 
courages agriculture,  the  farm- 
ers were  timid  at  first  about 
displaying  their  big  beets  and 
fat  porkers. 

They  dug  irrigation  ditches 
in  Korea  with  a five-man-power 
shovel.  That  way  will  not 
stand  competition  with  a mod- 
ern steam  shovel. 


Nowhere  is  the  great 
antiquity  of  the  Korean 
civilization  so  clearly 
shown  as  in  the  mosaic  of  their 
religious'beliefs. 


The  all-around  Korean,  when 
in  society,  is  a Confucianist;  a 
Buddhist  when  he  philosophizes, 
and  a Spirit-worshipper  when  he 
is  in  trouble. 


If  you  would  know  a man’s  religion, 
watch  him  when  he  is  in  trouble! 


Korea’s  is  a strange  religion 
in  which  superstition,  incited 
by  ignorance,  prevails. 


for  Centuries 


Theirs  is  a religion 
of  dragons,  devils, 
elves,  imps,  and  gob- 
lins, in  which  spirits  of  dead 
humanity  are  here  and  there 
present;  where  eternal  shades 
walk  about;  in  which  hills, 
trees,  and  rivers  — even  dis- 
eases— have  personalities 
bearing  woe  and  terror  to  all 
men. 


Yet  in  no  other  Asiatic  country  has 
there  been  so  general  an  acceptance 
of  Christianity,  a growth  so 
rapid,  or  an  influence  so  power- 
ful on  the  national  life. 


AWide-Op 


Korea,  awakening  to  the 
necessity  of  modern 
. Western  merchandise 
in  contrast  with  her  antediluvian 
implements,  is  ready  to  buy 
our  products, — hook,  line  and 
sinker. 

Take  clothes,  for  instance.  After  wear- 
ing a long,  loose  robe,  “all  bound  round 
with  a woolen  string,” — wouldn’t  anyone 
be  glad  to  snuggle  into  a regular  coat 
with  a safe  and  sane  system  of  buttons 
and  buttonholes? 


n Market 


Adding  accounts  on  an  abacus  was  easy 
when  business  was  dull,  but  now  that 
Korea  is  double-quicking  to  catch  up  with 
the  rest  of  the  world,  she  buys  adding 
machines  and  cash  registers  to  do  her 
thinking  for  her. 

The  silence  of  centuries  is  broken  by 
the  clack  of  an  American  typewriter  and 
the  yawp  of  an  American  flivver. 

Korea  is  in  the  market  for  everything 
new.  Missions  help  by  educating  the 
younger  generation  up  to  the  point  where 
they  demand  soap  for  their  homes,  anti- 
septics for  their  cuts,  and  good  books  for 
their  souls. 


*• 


Korea  as  viewed 


Medicine  is  Korea’s  great  need.  Brewed  decoctions  of  deer’s  horns  and  ginseng  mixed  with 
superstition  do  not  cure  smallpox,  cholera,  typhus,  and  leprosy. 


In  most  of  Korea’s  1584  native  schools  the  basis  of  study  is  still  the  Chinese  classics.  Korea  has 
approximately  107,000  children  in  school,  of  which  Methodism  cares  for  only  8,608. 


Thousands  of  Koreans,  dissatisfied  with  the  old  religions,  are  turning  towards  Christianity 
wherever  the  Cospel  message  is  carried. 

Already  24,069  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church;  33,249  of  their  children  are  in 
its  Sunday  Schools. 


by  Methodism 


In  our  seven  dispensaries  20,021  treatments  were  administered  last  year.  Methodism  has  seven 
hospitals — one  for  every  2,359,143  Koreans. 


Thousands  of  little  Koreans — the  men  and  women  of  to-morrow — wait  to  be  taught  that  the 
teachings  of  Jesus  are  a better  educational  foundation  than  those  of  ancient  Confucius. 


There  are  16,366,558  in  Korea’s  population  of  16,500,000  who  are  not  Christian — but  they  are 
willing  inquirers. 


I If  Methodism  is  ever  to  measure  up  to  her  opportunity,  now  is  the  time  to  begin  an  intensified 
( 1 campaign. 


The  Japanese  Government  has  planned,  and  is  already  carry- 
ing out  in  Korea,  a far-reaching  and  constructive  program 
looking  to  the  development  of  that  country.  The  same  high 
order  of  intelligence  and  far-sightedness  which  has  made  Japan  the 
nation  she  is  today  will  do  identically  the  same  thing  in  Korea. 

The  Koreans  are  a keen  and  intelligent  race,  in  many  respects  counterparts  of 
the  Japanese.  Modern  schools,  planned  on  the  Japanese  system,  are  springing  up  in 
the  cities.  Modern  sanitation  has  been  introduced,  hospitals  erected,  and  industry 
impregnated  with  the  germ  that  means  healthy  growth.  Already  there  is  beginning 
to  rear  its  ugly  head  high  in  the  air  the  snirit  of  materialism.  It  i§  a danger  signal. 

Many  of  the  leaders  in  Japan  are  aware  of  the  very  same  danger  at  home.  These 
men  are  earnestly  considering  which  of  several  remedies  shall  be  applied  there — but 
nothing  is  being  done  to  curb  the  monster’s  growing  grip  on  Korea. 

There  is  but  one  cure.  It  is  Christianity!  And  it  is  a most  significant  fact  that  in 
no  other  of  our  foreign  fields  are  the  people  as  a whole  so  receptive  to  our  message. 


The  call  to  Christianity  is  loud  and  clear.  It  is  the  opportunity 
before  the  church  today.  Christianity  wants  the  Koreans. 
The  Koreans  want  Christianity. 

The  industrial  and  commercial  development  of  Korea  will  be  astonishing  during 
the  next  two  decades.  Japan’s  policy  guarantees  that  on  the  one  hand,  and  Korea’s 
strategic  position  with  regard  to  China  guarantees  it  on  the  other  hand. 

Japan  wants  huge  business  relations  with  China.  The  front  door  through  which 
this  avalanche  of  merchandise  will  pass  back  and  forth  is  Korea.  Korea  must  develop. 
She  cannot  stand  still.  Factories  will  spring  up  overnight  once  this  movement 
obtains  its  impetus,  and  materialism  will  be  king! 

The  Christian  Church  must  be  there  first  with  a large  plant.  Nor  will  that  alone 
suffice!  The  church  must  be  prepared  to  grow  as  rapidly  as  the  need  demands. 
But  first  it  must  be  ready,  and  it  is  not  now! 

A strongly  Christianized  people  in  Korea  will  open  up  possibilities  in  China 
that  will  astonish  the  civilized  world,  while  the  effect  on  Japan  will  be  tremendous. 
Opportunity  calls  in  clarion  tones. 

Can  Christianity  Fail  to  Respond? 


The“Wakin 


Anew  disease  is  perme- 
ating to  the  very  heart 
of  Korea,  attacking 
every  bone  and  tissue  of 
the  old  structure.  It  is  the 
“waking  sickness.” 

Against  its  powerful 
ravages  nothing  that  is  old 
or  that  has  outlived  its 
usefulness,  nothing  that  is 
custom-bound  and  decayed, 
can  stand. 

The  thatches  that  roof 
the  houses  are  kindled  by 
the  sparks  of  a Baldwin 
locomotive  that  screams 
through  the  village.  On 
the  charred  foundations  is 
built  a modern  structure. 

The  old  method  of  col- 
lecting taxes  for  public 


improvements  was  nothing 
short  of  a system  of  blackmail. 
Now  a clean,  orderly  and  im- 
partial court  deals  out  justice 
to  all. 

And  the  “waking  sickness”  is  un- 
dermining the  old  religion,  attacking 
it  at  the  foundations  of  its  strength. 
The  appeal  of  humanity  with  all  its 
hopes  of  future  years  is  stronger  than 
the  appeal  of  an  ancestor  dead  a 
couple  of  thousand.  Instead  of  drop- 
ping a coin  in  a wayside  shrine  to 
appease  a demon,  the  Korean  is  pay- 
ing his  dollar  to  join  the  Red  Cross. 

That  attitude  is  our  cue.  The 
“waking  sickness”  has  knocked  the 
jjrops  out  of  all  the  old-established 
institutions  that  the  Korean  has  been 
leaning  on.  Knocked  out  the  props 
and  left  what.^  A receptive  mind. 
A willingness  to  hear.  A desire  to 
be  shown. 


kness  in 


Methodism  must 


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JAPAN  has  governed  Korea  since  1910.  She  has 
been  instilling,  to  the  utmost  of  her  ability,  all 
of  Western  civilization  with  its  tremend- 
ous possibilities— all  save  Christianity. 

Korea,  the  one-time  hermit  nation,  has  been 
drawn  into  the  stir  of  the  world  outside. 

It  is  a stimulation  towards  materialism  that  lacks  the 
great  throbbing  impulse  of  Christianity. 


Methodism  must  meet  Japan’s  best  to  overcome  this 
danger. 


We  must  erect  the  finest  school  buildings,  and  many 


meet  Japans  best 

of  them.  In  artistic  excellence  of  schoolhouse  and 
college,  in  comfort  and  in  range  of  studies,  we  must 
offer  young  Korea  all  that  Japan  offers. 

And  when  we  have  done  these  things  Christianity 
will  conquer. 

The  Korean  is  eager  for  education  but  more  eager 
for  Christian  education.  Methodism’s  path  for  the  next 
few  years  is  clear-cut  in  Korea. 


Reaching  the  Soul 


The  seed  of  Christian- 
ity planted  in  Korea 
was  in  the  form  of  a 
quinine  capsule.  The  first 
resident  missionary  was  a 
physician.  In  many  communities  where  our 
doctrines  encountered  prejudice,  our 
doctoring-  has  overcome  the  prejudice. 


Spirits  and  disease  are  inextricably  tangled  in  the 
Korean’s  mind.  It  is  easy  for  him  to  accept,  from 
the  doctor  who  can  “cast  out  devils,”  knowledge  of  the  God  who  can  cast  out 
evil.  In  the  old  days  smallpox  stalked  through  the  land  like  a cruel  handmaiden 
of  death.  The  poor  people  resigned  themselves  grimly  to  its  horrid  ravages. 
In  stating  the  number  of  his  children  a man  never  included  those  who  had  not 
yet  been  through  smallpox.  Such  kiddies  were  not  realities.  They  were  only 
possibilities  not  yet  to  be  counted. 


'through  the  Body 


Christian  medicine  has  helped 
change  this.  Smallpox  is  no  longer 
epidemic,  and  a Korean  daddy  now 
dares  to  count  all  his  children. 

If  a real  honest-to-goodness  M.D., 
with  serum  and  vaccines,  skilled 
hands  and  blessed  ministrations,  can 
rid  a whole  community  of  this 
“smallpox  devil,”  is  it  any  wonder 
that  he  can  win  their  respect,  their 
love,  their  souls? 


AN  old  Korean 
^ ^ school  was  a 
bedlam  of  pig-tailed 
youngsters  gabbling 
Chinese  classics  at 
the  top  of  their  lungs. 
The  result  of  the  old 
education  was  nar- 
row individualism. 

Generation  after 
generation  plodded 
in  the  same  tread- 
mill; never  getting  a 
step  further  forward 
than  their  ancestors 
did  until  Korea  was 


so  far  behind  on  the 
road  of  progress  that 
it  will  take  a Big 
Force  to  put  her  in 
the  running  again. 
That  force  is  Chris- 
tianity. 

The  broad  intellectual 
training  of  our  schools  is 
enriched  by  a strong 
moral  background.  With 
this  impetus,  young 
Koreans  are  breaking 
away  from  old,  narrow  tra- 
ditions, breaking  through 
the  bonds  that  fettered 
their  nation,  smashing  into 
age-old  superstition. 


Here  are  just  a few  of  the  33,249  Ko- 
rean Kidlets  in  our  Sunday  Schools. 
These  Sunday  School  members  are 
daily  circulating  among  their  elders  and  their 
playmates  “wonder  stories”  of  the  new  ideals 
we  are  teaching  them.  The  boys  and  girls  in 
our  institutions  become  fired  with  a spirit 
that  makes  each  of  these  faces  stand  out  as 
an  individual,  a personality,  a force  for  good. 

There  are  thousands  of  Korean  Kidlets 
waiting — many  of  them  impatiently — for 
the  Christians  of  America  to  provide  more 
room  that  they  too  may  join  the  ranks  of 
those  who  recognize  the  failure  of  Korea’s 
age-old  customs  and  beliefs. 

The  Sunday  School  will  bring  much  nearer 
for  Korea  the  day  when  womanhood  will 
not  be  degraded  by  its  present  humiliating 
status,  when  demon-fear  will  not  constitute 
religion,  when  that  word  religion  will  mean 
what  it  should— faith,  hope,  and  charity. 


Our  Present  Investment 


PROPERTY  AND  EQUIPMENT 


48  Churches 
3 Missionary  Residences 


$209,568 


Additional  Buildings  and  Equipment  for 
9 Primary  Schools 
3 High  Schools  . 

1 Christian  College  (Chosen) 

1 Union  Theological  Seminary 

2 Bible  Institutes 


376,200 


Additional  Buildings  and  Equipment  for 
5 Hospitals  .... 

2 Dispensaries  .... 

1 Union  Medical  College  . 


58,730 


Total  Property  and  Equipment 
Endowment  . . . . 


$644,498 


$116,500 


What  we  propose  to  do 


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I 


Every  Christian  activity  in  Korea  serves  two 
purposes.  First,  and  foremost,  is  the  furtherance 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God  among  the  Koreans. 
Secondly,  and  of  the  utmost  importance,  is  the  reaction 
upon  Japan. 


The  Koreans  are  developing  rapidly,  and  Chris- 
tianity is  playing  a tremendously  important  part.  Our 
facilities  are  everywhere  taxed  to  capacity.  And 
always  the  watchful,  discerning  eyes  of  the  Japanese 
are  carefully  analyzing  the  causes  underlying  this 
advancement. 


We  may  rest  assured  that  where  Christianity  is 
responsible,  Christianity  is  being  given  due  credit. 


In  guiding  Korea,  then,  to  a better  national  conscious- 
ness, we  are  as  well  guiding  the  Japanese.  Every 
dollar  spent  by  us  in  Korea  is  doing  its  work  in  that 
field,  and  in  addition  is  making  the  dollars  we  spend  in 
Japan  of  double  value. 


.uii,  a: 


IN  ADDITION,  there  is  still  another  very  important 
reaction  from  our  Korean  work.  It  is  that  produced 
in  China.  Hundreds  of  Chinese  students  are 
returning  home  each  year  from  educational  centers  in 
Christian  countries.  They  are  the  ones  on  whom  the 
future  of  China  rests.  They  are  watching  not  only 
China’s  economic  and  political  trend  but  Japan’s  and 
Korea’s  as  well. 

If  Christianity  is  on  trial  anywhere,  it  is  in  Korea, 
and  probably  in  no  other  foreign  field  is  there  the  same 
urgent  need  for  aggressive,  constructive  Christian  work. 

We  propose-  so  to  spend  yoi/r  Centenary  Gift  that 
it  will  react  directly  on  Korea  and  indirectly  on  China 
and  Japan. 

All  facts  bear  out  the  statement  that  the  Christians 
of  America  may  certainly  expect  much  of  Korea,  not 
only  in  religion,  but  as  well  in  her  absorption  of  the 
principles  of  true  world  democracy. 

i 


I 


America  declared  war,  on  April 
6th,  1917,  the  conflict  in  Europe  was 
just  a war— differing  from  its  prede- 
cessors only  in  size. 

When,  however.  President  Wilson 
hurled  into  the  ring  the  power  of 
America,  war  as  the  world  then  knew 


it  became  a thing  of  the  past. 

We  were  engaged  in  a righteous  war,  one  in  which  greed 
and  national  aggrandizement  never  figured.  Germany 
was  but  a pawn  in  the  scheme  of  things  as  laid  out  in 
America’s  great  World  Emancipation  plan. 

In  spots  the  world  was  an  unfit  place  in  which  to  live. 
Man  everywhere  must  be  made  to  recognize  man’s  equality 
— his  right  to  come  and  go  and  do  as  he  pleases  so  long 
as  he  observes  the  common  laws  of  humanity. 

America  set  this  conscience  standard  for  the  world! 


World  Betterment  is  the  new  cry  and  every  movement, 
everywhere,  which  aims  to  speed  this  attainment  will  take 
on  added  impetus.  Weak  peoples,  little  peoples,  far-away 
peoples,  and  oppressed  peoples  are  to  have  their  day. 
The  helm  of  the  world  is  held  firmly  in  the  hands  of 
Woodrow  Wilson,  chief  executive  of  a people  enjoying 
the  blessings  of  true  democracy. 


Twnrjr 


Irea-Ybur  Money 


And  these  free  millions  through  their  able  helmsman, 
along  with  their  Allies,  decreed  that  the  spirit  of  democracy 
must  be  given  an  opportunity  to  take  root  wherever  the 
need  exists.  The  world  must  be  made  a better  place! 

It  was  to  accomplish  that  purpose  that  we  drew  the  sword. 
And  that  we  might  succeed  in  our  crusade  we  fed  three- 
fifths  of  Europe,  relieved  distress  and  suffering  in  France 
and  Belgium,  and  in  Asia  Minor.  It  is  for  that  reason, 
also,  that  the  Missionary  program  of  the  world  must  go  on. 
The  fester-spots  on  the  family  of  nations  must  be  cured. 

The  Methodist  Church  in  America  is  one  hundred  years 
old!  The  anniversary  comes  at  a critical  time  in  Church 
history.  Everywhere  people  are  raising  the  question, 
“Has  Christianity  failed.^”  Christianity  has  not  failed! 

It  was  the  spirit  of  Christ  that  cried  out  to  Germany 
“Stop!”  It  was  the  spirit  of  Christ  that  compelled  the  Cen- 
tral Powers  to  lay  down  their  arms  and  acknowledge  defeat! 

It  is  the  spirit  of  Christ  that  will  bring  freedom — 
political,  economic  and  religious  freedom — to  all  peoples  of 
the  world! 

_It  is  the  [spirit  of|Christ  that  will  fill  the  coffers  of  the 
Centenary  Missionary  Chests  to  overflowing,  that  brotherly 
love  and  peace  and  helpfulness  and  true  democracy  may 
be  spread  broadcast  throughout  the  world! 


One  of  the  Leasi 


This  is  a Korean  child.  He  is  dyin^  be- 
cause of  neglect.  In  the  be^innin^  his 
ailment  could  have  been  easily  cured. 
But  no  one  at  hand  knew  how. 


Finally  when  complications  set  in.  his 
parents  brougtht  him  a lonP  distance  to 
see  the  foreipn  doctor. 


Two  thousand  years  a^o  there  lived  on 
this  earth  a Man  who  loved  little  children 


and  who  did  for  little  children  with  a strength 
of  purpose  greater  and  midhtier  than  any 
other  that  history  has  ever  recorded. 


The  messaoes  and  principles  laid 
down  by  this  Man  have  lived  two 
thousand  years  and  have  been 
the  means  of  brin^ngf  peace 
and  love  and  helptlilness  to 


the  hearts  of  millions. 


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)f  these 


✓ 


But  of  all  his  messagfes,  the  one  most 
fraught  with  the  Spirit  of  God  and  the  one 
nearest  the  heart  of  the  Man  himself  reads  that: 


Jlnastnuth  as  hatje  bone  it 
unto  one  of  the  least  of^these 
^e  hane  bone  it  unto  3Hle. 


If  true  world  democracy  is  to  become  a fact, 
and  the  voice  of  the  United  Allies  says  it 
must:  if  the  world  is  to  be  made  a better 
Dlace  in  which  to  live,  conditions  in  Korea, 
ike  those  which  have  allowed  this  little  lad  to 
Decome  as  you  see  him.  must  be  cleaned  up. 

The  Preat  world  program  for  which  we  are 
pouringT  out  our  blood  and  treasure 
puts  a duty  on  every  churchman. 

And  YOU  will  measure  up  to 


PRESIDENT  WILSON  says: 

“T  THINK  it  would  be  a real  misfor- 
X tune,  a misfortune  of  everlasting- 
consequence,  if  the  missionary  pro- 
gram for  the  world  should  be  inter- 
rupted. There  are  many  calls  for 
money,  but  that  the  work  undertaken 
should  be  continued  at  its  full  force 
seems  to  me  of  capital  necessity.” 


